![]() The film also incorporates a really interesting character reinvention to Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), reprising her role from the first Suicide Squad movie and Birds of Prey (2019). The rivalry between Bloodsport and Peacemaker is really fun and entertaining, and the fun father-daughter relationship between Bloodsport and Ratcatcher 2 feels really fleshed out and interesting. Incorporating some of the comics’ most unusual and quirky characters, all the characters feel very fleshed out with developed personalities and interesting back-stories.Īlso, much like the best superhero team-up movies, a lot of the magic relies upon the character interaction and chemistry between the cast. The film’s real strength, however, lies in the film’s characters and Gunn’s great characterisation. Inspired by the Deadpool movies and proudly branding a 15-rating (or “R” rating in America), this movie is gleefully macabre, showing us a wide array of exploding brains, sliced up bodies and gruesome death scenes. And, not only that but it shines a light of some of the DC’s most delightfully dumb characters, for instance, there is a humanoid, talking shark a man who throw deadly polka-dots (yes, that’s right) a man whose arms can come out of their sockets, etc.Īnd, it should not be understated that the gore is a big part of the movie, and you should be warned that this is definitely not a kid’s movie. It combines the large budget and franchise world-building of Guardians of the Galaxy, the extreme gore and cartoonish violence of Slither and the unorthodox superheroes of Super, because this film shines a light on some of DC’s most under-known heroes. The Suicide Squad feels like a odd combination of all of these three movies. Gunn’s previous directional work includes the creature-feature black comedy/ horror movie, Slither, the aforementioned Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero movie, Guardians of the Galaxy and the black comedy, Super, centred around a superhero with no actual superpowers. The film is a really terrific, lively and downright bonkers piece of superhero entertainment that you can feel the sheer amount of craft Gunn has put into making it. Putting that to the side, however, in terms of the movie alone, you will be thrilled to hear that The Suicide Squad really lives up to the hype. And, here, with The Suicide Squad they have done a very similar thing. For example, instead of moving on from the mistakes they made from 2017’s Justice League, they released another version of that movie (2021’s Zack Synder’s Justice League) in hopes that everyone will just forget about it. This has been an overall problem with the DCEU in general, however, in how they have just re-made and re-jigged certain movies instead of just learning from their mistakes. This time around, however, you will be thrilled to hear that Gunn was left to his own creative devices, crafting a much clearer and better crafted movie. The end result was an extremely messy, badly written, confusing and down-right nonsensical movie that even the film’s director, David Ayer has recently disowned. ![]() Receiving negative reviews (albeit some impressive box office returns), that film had a troubled production, going through multiple edits and script changes. Many know that the original Suicide Squad was an absolute disaster. The film has a large ensemble cast of colourful characters, but we focus mainly on Peacemaker (John Cena), Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior), Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian) and King Shark (Sylvester Stallone), who are hired by Waller to destroy the laboratory Jotunheim on a mission dubbed “Project Starfish”. And, if they abandon their mission, they will be killed (very gruesomely) with a bomb that has been implanted into their brains. The film follows intelligence officer, Amanda Waller’s attempt to dispatch Task Force X (otherwise known as “Suicide Squad”) – a team on criminals brought together for a mission that if successful, will get them time off their sentence. This film should not be confused with 2016’s Suicide Squad, the franchise’s first attempt at adapting these comics, because other than sharing that film’s name and general premise, this film is very much a different beast. The DC Extended Universe (or The DCEU) has returned to the big screen for the first time since last year’s Wonder Woman 1984 with The Suicide Squad, written and directed by Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn.
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